Nanai language

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Nanai language is a critically endangered Tungusic language spoken by the Nanai people of the Russian Far East and northeastern China.

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Nanai language canonical 7

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Tungusic language
critically endangered language
natural language
alternativeName Gold
Goldi
Goldic
Hezhe
Hezhe
surface form: Hezhen

Kilen
Kili
Samagir
closelyRelatedTo Oroch language
Udege language
Ulch language
country China
Russia
endangerment severely declining number of speakers
hasDialects Kili dialect
Kur-Urmi Nanai
Lower Amur Nanai
Sungari Nanai
Upper Amur Nanai
hasEthnologueCode gld
hasGlottocode nana1257
hasISO639-3Code gld
hasPhonologicalFeature contrastive vowel length
palatalization contrasts
hasSpeakerTrend intergenerational transmission largely interrupted
historicalScript Latin-based orthography (experimental)
languageFamily Tungusic languages
region Amur Oblast
Heilongjiang
surface form: Heilongjiang Province

Khabarovsk Krai
spokenBy Nanai people
spokenIn Russia Far East
surface form: Russian Far East

northeastern China
status critically endangered
subfamily Tungusic languages
surface form: Southern Tungusic languages
subjectOf language revitalization efforts
typologicalFeature SOV word order
agglutinative morphology
rich case system
vowel harmony
UNESCOStatus critically endangered
usedBy Hezhe ethnic minority in China
Nanai ethnic minority in Russia
usedIn Nanai oral literature
Nanai shamanic practices
traditional Nanai folklore
writingSystem Cyrillic script

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Referenced by (7)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Tungusic languages hasMemberLanguage Nanai language
Negidal language lexicalBorrowingFrom Nanai language
Orok language hasNeighboringLanguage Nanai language
Ulch language relatedTo Nanai language
Hezhen language closelyRelatedTo Nanai language
Udege language closelyRelatedTo Nanai language
Nanaysky District hasMinorityLanguage Nanai language